The J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah houses, along with a substantial collection of Arabic papyri and parchments, a small collection of Arabic, Coptic, and Greek artifacts, including an opisthographic Greek epitaph of the third or fourth century CE. The stone was acquired by Professor Aziz Atiya (1898-1988) during one of the frequent trips he made to his native Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s, when he was Professor of Languages and History at the University of Utah, where he served from 1959 until his death. The inscription was bequeathed to the J. Willard Marriot Library following his death and was added to the collection in 1989.
